THE MIND BOGGLES!!

How to Change Your Life | Nov.17th 2022 No. 783

 

 

 

We use our automatic minds for all kinds of tasks every day. Woulnd't it be nice if we could use those everyday tasks to depotentiate the Autopilot!

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

We develop a couple of key skills when we choose to depotentiate the Autopilot.

The first and most important of those skills is the skill of choosing. We have moment-to-moment choices to make all day, every day. And, when we allow the Autopilot the convenience of doing the choosing for us in little mundane things, it takes the proverbial mile and continues the habit of an adult lifetime, in automatically choosing to do the more important thnigs for us: like reacting, misbehaving, repeating bad habits, repeating the same mistakes... an Autopilot is always on repeat - so it will always bring you back to the same normality.

As we stop ourselves in the midst of our ordinary everyday life and choose, we develop our awareness. In fact, the two go hand-in-hand. Most importantly, we become aware that we always have a choice. We can choose whether we meander down the dead-ends of thought or... wake up and, even more importantly, stay awake. That's one of the key benefits of choosing moment-to-moment.

And, then of course, there is the key skill of just doing what we're doing. This is how, where and when we enter flow... when we immerse ourselves in something as simple as brushing our teeth "the other way".

Like every step that we can take to change our lives, these little steps are simplicity themselves. But don't let their apparent simplicity fool you... this baby steps will change your life.

 

One more thing...

I've an upcoming 90mins Facebook Live entitled How You Change Your Life on Wednesday next, November, 23rd., when I will walk through the key steps to... changing anything or everything about your life.